Posted on 07/05/2011 10:26:48 AM PDT by traumer
Edited on 07/05/2011 10:28:25 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
"The problem is at the consumer level, confidence is low and that is because, as you showed, showed we had underemployment with one out of every six Americans. The worst element of that is that among the unemployed, against the American history, more than approaching half, have [been] unemployed for over six months.
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Rush is talking about this very thing right now.
We can let them starve, or ... we can send them checks and make the workers pay higher taxes.
Pain is coming. It could take several forms, but there is no gentle trajectory that takes us out of this problem.
but someone will have to pay for that all!
As we dumb down the country and produce less and less we do not need more expensive experienced workers, we just need warm bodies; young & dumb.
All I can say is that when you sow the wind, you reap the whirlwind. It was those middle-aged people who are most responsible for running up the various state and national debts.
“I wonder how those pro-Obama 20 somethings are going to feel when they get out in the workforce and their taxes go up so that middle age folks can sit at home and collect welfare and unemployment.”
One word.
Euthanasia.
Although it hardly addresses the bigger problem of an out of control government that has grown into such a behemoth that it consumes and enslaves taxpayers in its wake --- a large degree of this problem would be alleviated by not providing jobs and taxpayer funded benefits to illegal invaders/squatters. There would be more jobs available to American citizens (youths and middle-aged 'between jobs'), and less of a tax-burden for the employed non-Government workers...
>30M illegals in this Country has a cost burden associated with it.
The only thing that will ease the pain is do everything we can do get people back to work. This debt/no debt, taxes/no taxes, cutting/no cutting are only partial solutions. Regulations need to be gutted and employers need to be able to fire worthless employees, union or not, with no worry about some trumped up discrimination case. Employers also need to be able to adjust inflated wages. Take a pay cut to what the market will bear, or go find another job. Worthless, non productive members of society can pick lettuce or get someone other than a taxpayer to pay their way through life. Not gonna happen, so we will all crash and burn.
I believe that is called reality.
Or wars...
Bar stool. Cell Phone. Racing Form. Employment in your old age.
Naaahhhh !
I’m doing deals out of my home office.
Tell that to my BIL, a 49 year old engineer, laid off from a Fortune 500 company three years ago. 21 years there. The best he has been able to get in that time is temp work in warehouses for a few months at a time. He is fit, able and eager to work at any job. No dice for people over 45. He is a rock solid conservative.
He didn't sow any wind, Jerk.
get rid of the EPA, get rid of 90% of regulations, and you would double manufacturing in 2-3 years.
non-right to work states would and will be screwed, as no one will build manufacturing plants in those areas because of the union regulations, unless they are offered millions or billions in incentives (which comes from the taxpayers).
but I don’t see this happening, manufacturing is gone, and I don’t think it is coming back.
the only jobs that can be created at this point are government, which as we’ve seen, costs 300k to a million bucks to create one part time position that pays 20k a year, and those jobs only last a year or two, because they get cut in budgets that need to pay for the pensions of the union members.
we’ll be moving more and more to a barter system for goods and services.
I am in my fifties and was laid off at the end of 2009. I am the left’s worst nightmare. A staunch conservative that has voluntarily dropped out of the workforce, cutting our family taxable income in half. Spending my new found spare time bashing the left and working to insure they are defeated in every election until I die. My small way of going Galt.
1. Reduce the risk of, and increase the potential gain from, creating a job. All federal, state, and local regulations and laws that disincentivise job creation should be reviewed, including those that ostensibly protect the environment and those that increase the difficuly of disciplining an employee who happens to be of a protected class.
2. Reduce or eliminate the corporate income tax. It makes no sense to tax corporate income twice, once at the corporate level and once at the dividend level.
3. Strictly enforce the ban on hiring illegals and forbid the participation of illegals in safety net programs.
4. Disincentivise idleness by reducing the level of support the unemployed receive - someone is going to have to do the jobs previously performed by the departed illegals.
If taken, these four steps would dramatically reduce the unemployment rate and improve all of our fortunes, monetary and otherwise.
There was an astonishing fact posted on another thread about California recently. The State Budget was something like $26B in the hole, and they estimated that paying for illegals was costing about $23B. Even with the obvious answer staring them in the face, California's "leaders" won't do the right thing.
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